A Just Solution for Sustainable Development

In the run-up to the G20 Summit and Rio+20 UN Conference, global activists have joined together to call on world leaders to adopt a Robin Hood Tax on financial transactions to promote global health, sustainable human and environmental development, and to help manage global capital flows.

Financial Transaction Taxes could help save lives all over the world

Currently, global funds developed to fight poverty and global health problems are shrinking. Money raised from Financial Transaction Taxes (FTT) can help to plug these gaps, for example by helping the Global Fund to continue fighting AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria. An FTT would have the capacity to tackle the global health gap; resources for promoting gender equity and women’s rights; money to fight the devastating effects of climate change. And crucially, it could save millions of lives by feeding the world’s hungry.

In addition to the social and environmental benefits, an FTT would help better monitor and manage capital flows, averting large problems such as capital evasion, high-speed speculative transactions and derivation.

In social justice we trust

The time is now for an FTT for health, education, gender equity programs, poverty eradication projects, and environmental solutions. It will also support proper regulation of a financial system which has run amok, deregulated to the extent that it has unbalanced its very own structural basis through successive crises.

The economic crisis has destroyed much of the social fabric in countries across the world, spreading human and environmental vulnerability while satisfying the whims of extremely well paid money managers and financial institutions. Is this just? We don’t think so.

Additional funds for sustainable development

We have a responsibility to keep pushing for a Robin Hood Tax on financial transactions which will help regulate financial markets while creating urgently needed additional funds for sustainable development.

Taxes on big capital could raise billions of dollars to help the poorest and most vulnerable in the world. In 2012, the G20 and the Rio+20 Conference leaders have a big role to play in taking the tax forward and making an FTT a reality.

Show your support for the FTT – click here to sign the petition today!

Written by: Alessandra Nilo (LACCASO), Claudio Fernandes (Gestos, Brazil)

This blog is supported by:

• ABIA –  Associação Brasileira Interdisciplinar de AIDS – Brazil
• ABGLT – Associação Brasileira de Lésbicas, Gays, Bissexuais, Travestis e Transexuais – Brasil
• ACCSI – Acción Ciudadana Contra el SIDA –Caracas/Venezuela
• Acciones Voluntarias sobre Educación – México
• Alliance Against AIDS- Belize
• Alianza VIH Bogotá
• Amigos Siempre Amigos (ASA) – Republica Dominicana
• A.MI.SE.U – Acción, prevención y responsabilidad frente al VIH/Sida y DDHH – Uruguay
• APN+ – Asia Pacific Network of People Living with AIDS
• APROASE, A.C. – Mexico
• ASEPO – Uruguay
• ASOCIACION CRISTIANA DE JOVENES – EL SALVADOR, C.A
• ASOCIACION IDEI – Guatemala
• Asociación Coordinadora de,Sectores de Lucha Contra el Sida -ACSLCS-  Guatemala, C. A.
• Asociación de Mujeres Meretrices –AMMAR- Argentina
• Asociación Silueta X y al Observatorio GLBTI – Ecuador.
• Asociación de trabajadoras sexuales –“Miluska Vida y Dignidad”
• Asociacion Via Libre -PERU
• ATTTA  RED NACIONAL   – Asociacion Travesti,Transexuales, Transgener@s  –  Argentina
• Coalición Ecuatoriana de personas que viven con VIH (CEPVVS) – Ecuador
• Compañeros de las Américas - Uruguay
• Corporacion  Kimirina – El Salvador
• CUMY – Mexico
• Derechohabientes Viviendo con VIH del IMSS (DVVIMSS) México
• EAM G. AMISTAD ONL-LACCASO-CUBA
• Fundación Hábitat Verde (FHV)– Bolivia
• Fundacion para Investigacion y Estudio sobre Mujeres – Argentina
• Fundación Huésped – Argentina
• FUNDACION MANODIVERSA- Bolivia
• Observatorio de Género y Equidad – Chile
• Grupo de Antropología Médica Crítica. Universidad Nacional de Colombia.
• Grupo Dignidade – Brasil
• GRUPO DE MUJERES DE LA ARGENTINA- Argentina
• IAWG – Grupo Internacional de Mujeres y Sida
• Iglesia Evangélica Luterana Unida –Argentina y Uruguay
• Instituto para el Desarrollo Humano – Bolivia
• Interculturalidad, Salud y Derechos A.C. – Mexico
• International HIV/AIDS Alliance
• Intilla Asociacion Civil de Argentina.
• Liga Bonaerense de Diversidad Sexual – Argentina
• Liga Colombiana de Lucha Contra el Sida- Colombia
• Movimiento de trabajadoras sexuales del Perú- PERU
• Mujer y Salud – MYSU Uruguay
• NACOSA – South Africa
• OBSERVATORIO DE ENCIERRO – Argentina
• Observatorio Latino/AID FOR AIDS- USA
• PARLAMENTO GUATEMALTECO PARA LA NIÑEZ Y LA ADOLESCENCIA – Guatemala
• PASTORAL ECUMÉNICA VIH-SIDA
• REDLACTRANS    – Red  latinoamericana y  el  caribe  de personas  trans
• Red Mexicana de Personas que Viven con VIH/SIDA, A.C. – Mexico
• Red de Personas Vivendo con VIH/SIDA – Mar del Plata – Argentina
• Red Mundial de Trabajo Sexual
• REDTRASEX – Red de Trabajadoras Sexuales de America Latina
• RSMLAC –Red de Salud de las Mujeres Latinoamericanas y del Caribe.
• Senderos Asociación Mutual – Cali, Colombia
• Servicios Humanitarios en Salud Sexual y Reproductiva , AC – Mexico
• SIPIA – Sec. Int Pueblos Indígenas y Afrodescendientes Frente VIH-sida, Sexualidad y DDHH – Global
• Somosgay – Paraguay
• Triplus Organization- Kenya
• UNASSE, AC – Mexico
• Vivir. Participación, Incidencia y Transparencia, A.C. – México